curl.php

/**
 * CURL funtion to post some data to an URL
 * @param string $url
 * @param array $post
 * @return string
 */
private function curl($url,$post="")
{
    $curl = curl_init();
    $userAgent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)';
    curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE);
    curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5);
    if($post!="")
    {
        curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_POST,5);
        curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);
    }
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

    $contents = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
    return $contents;
}